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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bischofsheim vor der Rhön |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld printed in brown on cream paper in a bold woodcut-style letterpress technique, with the denomination numeral '25' in decorated Gothic script set within ruled corner boxes at upper left and right. The central field carries the issuing authority legend 'Gutschein der Stadt Bischofsheim v.d. Rhön' in ornate blackletter, with the town name rendered in a large stylised script flanked by symmetrical foliate scroll ornaments. The entire design is enclosed within a serrated border frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pfennig |
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Bischofsheim vor der Rhön is a small Franconian market town at the foot of the Rhön highlands, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to locally issued Notgeld during the acute small-change shortages of 1917–1921. The DeNG reference places this within the second subtype of the 0107.3 series — meaning at least two distinct printings or varieties exist for this denomination from this issuer, a level of granularity that matters to specialist collectors working the Bavarian regional issues.
Paper Notgeld of this type was never intended to circulate long; most was redeemed within months and pulped.